highway emergency operation

highway medical assistance [ highway emergency assistance ]

ambulance for carrying traffic accident victims

ambulance for carrying traffic accident victims

highway emergency telephone | roadside emergency telephone

highways inspector | road maintenance supervisor | highways maintenance inspector | road maintenance technician

Floor Fire Emergency Officer [ Floor Emergency Officer ]

road traffic offence | motoring offence | driving offence | contravention of the Road Traffic Act | offence against the Road Traffic Act

road pricing (1) | road charge (2)

The Revelstoke Highway Rescue firefighters are being recognized this month by Emergency Management British Columbia for their exemplary service to the motoring public in road rescue.

Firefighters Steve Olsson and Dan Sculnick will travel to Victoria, B.C., this month to accept the award on behalf of the Revelstock Highway Rescue team.

Every minute is crucial to save lives and reduce the severity of injuries when emergency services are called to a road accident. eCall devices alert emergency services immediately, even if the driver or passenger is unconscious or otherwise unable to call, and speed up the arrival of emergency teams by an estimated 40% in urban areas and 50% in rural areas. eCall can also have a significant impact on the reduction of the congestion caused by the traffic accidents and thus the overall congestion of the European roads.

In particular, the Commission should be empowered to establish the specific procedures, tests and requirements for the type-approval of motor vehicles, components and separate technical units; to define more precisely the characteristics a tyre must fulfil to be defined as ‘special use tyre’, ‘off-road professional tyre’, ‘reinforced tyre’, ‘extra load tyre’, ‘snow tyre’, ‘T-type temporary-use spare tyre’ or ‘traction tyre’; to set out specific safety requirements for vehicles intended for the transport of dangerous goods by road within or between Member States; to exempt certain vehicles or classes of vehicles of categories M2, M3, N2 and N3 from the obligation to install advanced emergency braking systems and/or lane departure warning ...[+++]systems; to amend the limit values on rolling resistance and rolling noise for tyres as a result of changes in test procedures without lowering the level of protection of the environment; to establish rules on the procedure for the determination of noise levels of tyres; to shorten the sell-off period for tyres not complying with the requirements set out in this Regulation and its implementing measures; and to amend Annex IV to include the Regulations of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE Regulations) which are mandatory under Council Decision 97/836/EC of 27 November 1997 with a view to accession by the European Community to the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions (5).